New Art Books

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS:  Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (Ed.) Helen C. Evans et al. 352 pp.; 9 5/8 x 12 ¼; 425 Color Illus.; Map; Notes; Bibliography; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Renoir: Impressionism and Full-Length Painting by Colin B. Bailey. 304 pp.; 10 1/8 x 12 ½; 255 Color Illus.; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Van Gogh Up Close (Ed.) Cornelia Homburg. 306 pp.; 9 7/8 x 11 3/8; 200 Color Illus.; Selected Bibliography; Index. $60.00 Hardcover *****
Whitney Biennial 2012 (Eds.) Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. 320 pp.; 9 ¾ x 12 ½; 403 Illus., 361 in Color. $45.00 Softcover. ****
Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (Revised Edition) by Tim Barringer. 192 pp.; 6 ½ x 9 ¼; 120 Illus., 90 in Color; Further Reading; Index. $27.50 Softcover. *****

QUIET LIGHT PUBLISHING: The Lewis & Clark Trail by Richard Mack. 256 pp.; 11 x 13; 248 Color Illus.; Photo Notes. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes by Richard Mack and Steve Kemp. 220 pp.; 11 x 13; 247 B/W & Color Illus.; Park Map; Photo Notes. $60.00 Hardcover. *****

HUDSON HILL PRESS: Lin Emery by Philip F. Palmedo. 164 pp.; 10 x 12; 122 Color Illus.; Chronology; Selected Collections, etc.; Bibliography; Index. $60.00 Hardcover ****

THAMES & HUDSON INC.: Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape (Ed.) Marko Daniel et al. 240 pp.; 10 x 11 ¾’ 200 Illus.; 186 in Color; Chronology; Further Reading; Index. $60.00 Hardcover. *****
Raw + Material = Art by Tristan Manco. 256 pp.; 9 ½ x 13 3/8; 400+ Color Illus.; Websites. $44.95 ***

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: Yamuna Walk by Atul Bhalla / Maliha Noorani. 196 pp.; 8 ¼ x 11 ¾; 163 Color Illus.; Notes; Bibliography. $50.00 Hardcover. *****
The Artist’s Touch, the Craftsman’s Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints in the Portland Art Museum by Maribeth Graybill. 348 pp.; 10 x 12; 390 Color Illus.; Glossary; Bibliography. $45.00 Hardcover. *****
The New Earthwork: Art, Action, Agency by Twlene Moyer & Glenn Harper. 320 pp.; 6 ½ x 9 ½; 130 Color Illus. $29.95 Softcover. ***
Weaver’s Stories from Island Southeast Asia by Roy M. Hamilton. 88 pp.; 9 x 12; 78 Color Illus.; References Cited. $25.00 Softcover. ***
Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women by Christopher G. Bennett et al. 132 pp.; 12 x 12; 129 Color Illus.; References Cites. $25.00 Softcover ****
Dyeing Elegance: Asian Modernism and The Art of Kuboku and Hisako Takaku by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla et al. 64 pp.; 10 x 11; 50 Color Illus.; Further Reading. $25.00 Hardcover ****

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde by Nina Gurianova. 360 pp.; 6 ¼ x 9 ¼; 68 B/W Illus.; Notes; List of Illustrations; Index. $49.95 Hardcover. *****

TRAFALGAR SQUARE PUBL: Botany for Artists by Lizabeth Leech. 224 pp.; 8 ½ x 1; B/W & Color Illus.; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $34.95 Softcover. *****
The Art of Chinese Brush Painting by Maggie Cross. 208 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; B/W & Color Illus.; Glossary; Further Reading; Useful Addresses; Index. $32.95 Softcover *****
Botanical Painting by Mariella Baldwin. 144 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; B/W & Color Illus.; Glossary; Useful Addresses; Further Reading; Index. $29.95 Softcover *****
Painting Portraits by Anthony Connolly. 112 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; B/W & Color Illus.; Afterword; Further Reading; Index. $27.95 Softcover. *****

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM: Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits by Martin Mahoney, et al. 103 pp.; 9x9; B/W & Color Illus.; Exhibition Checklist. $19.95 Softcover. *****

HARPER/COLLINS-WM: Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin. 546 pp.; 6 x 9; B/W & Color Illus.; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Index. $16.99 Softcover. *****